ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / transitive:

• to pray silently; to have in mind; to be anxious about

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to clean up; to clear away; to put in order

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sporadically; here and there; now and then; in twos and threes; sparsely - onomatopoeia

noun / adjectival noun:

• bad at socializing; bad in social situation; being a bad mixer

noun:

• type of loom used in olden times - archaism ➜ 空引き機
• loom; traditional loom

noun:

• special feature (e.g. in a magazine); special program; special project

noun:

• self-government; autonomous government; devolved government (e.g. in the UK)

noun:

• partner country; other country (in a dispute, arrangement, etc.); opponent (country)

noun:

• idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words

noun:

• substitution kanji; kanji used in place of a common-use kanji ➜ 常用漢字

expression / noun:

• the person in question
• prominent figure; distinguished person - as その人あり

expression / pronoun:

• that person

noun:

• top; summit; apex; peak
• twelve o'clock (usu. midnight) ［てっぺん］ - often in てっぺんを回る or てっぺん回る - slang
• top of one's head; top of a helmet; (top of) scalp; crown - esp. 頂辺 when in kanji - obscure term

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to get on well (with a person); to be a good match with one's horse (e.g. of a rider) [literal] - idiom ➜ 気が合う

expression:

• now rejoicing, now worrying; swinging from joy to sorrow; glad and sad by turns; alternating hope and fear; unable to put one's mind at ease - four character idiom

noun:

• door-to-door manzai; form of comedy orig. performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai ➜ 漫才

noun:

• being inseparable as a form and its shadow; a person's deed mirrors the good or evil of his mind; husband and wife being never apart - four character idiom

noun:

• sickle handle
• goby minnow (Pseudogobio esocinus)
• Oriental photinia (species of shrub, Photinia villosa) ➜ 牛殺し
• Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis) ➜ 露草
• Joseph's-coat (species of amaranth, Amaranthus tricolor) ➜ 葉鶏頭

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to cut one's way through; to tide over; to struggle through; to get over

noun:

• blessings of heaven; favour of emperor; favor of emperor; divination's luckiest day; blessings of nature

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make up one's mind (to do something); to resolve firmly (to do something)

expression:

• there is no God!; it's a cruel world; there is no god or Buddha [literal] - idiom

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to lose composure; to be upset; to be flurried; to lose one's head (through shock) ➜ 動転

noun:

• Madagascar red owl (Tyto soumagnei); Madagascar grass owl; Sourmange's owl; red owl

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to bite into; to sink one's teeth into
• to stick to; to cling to; to hold on to ［かじりつく］

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break up and start anew; to break out of one's shell; to make a fresh start; to go outside oneself - idiom